Hi Bill,
Ah, that actually makes a lot more sense. :-)
Now you've got me thinking... :-)
-Jeff
Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote:
Hi Jeff,
The reason we want to do this is because we want to control the
subscriptions to our mailing list interface through our application. We
disable subscriptions and unsubscriptions by email, so the only way that
users can join is through our application interface. We would only
allow users who have signed on through the application to subscribe, so
they would have already verified themselves.
Hope this clarifies the reason.
Regards,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Shepherd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:58 PM
To: Bill Honneus (honneus)
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Programmatic Subscription
Hi Bill,
While I cannot provide insight on how to do this, I wonder why you would
want to bypass the confirmation in the first place. The problem with
bypassing that is that I can then subscribe several people to your list
without confirming they are the ones who in-fact wanted to be
subscribed. I could do this just to annoy people who I dislike.
The purpose of the confirmation is to ensure that this doesn't happen.
I don't think bypassing it is a very good idea.
-Jeff
Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote:
Hi,
When a user subscribes or unsubscribes from a mailing list, they are
sent an email confirmation and must click a link on the web interface
or reply to the email to confirm their subscription/removal. One of
our engineers is creating a portlet on a web application, and what he
wants to do is allow the user to be immediately subscribed as soon as
they click a link. Is there a way to configure Mailman so that a user
is immediately subscribed or removed without the confirmation process?
Alternatively, if we were to write some custom code on our
application, could we simply call the subscribe cgi script, and then
send the confirmation request from the application without asking the
user for further input?
Please let me know if this is a sound approach.
Thanks,
Bill
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